Region
10
Santa Rosa, Escambia, & Okaloosa
Regional Director
Michele Nicholson
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
1250 N. Eglin Parkway
Shalimar, FL 32579
Fax: (850) 609-3048
mnicholson@sheriff-okaloosa.org
Biography of Michele Nicholson
As Public Information Officer for the Okaloosa County
Sheriff's Office, Michele Nicholson handles media and public inquiries, writes
news releases and conducts TV interviews, helps host a monthly cable television
show called "Okaloosa Eye on Crime," and helps host or organize a weekly radio
show on WFTW-AM.
She graduated with honors from the University of South
Carolina with a degree in broadcast journalism. Upon graduation, she worked as a
reporter for WLTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbia, South Carolina before
moving with her husband, Scott, to his hometown of Fort Walton Beach in 1987.
Over the next several years, Michele worked for WFTW radio,
eventually becoming News Director at the station. She also wrote freelance
newspaper feature articles for the Northwest Florida Daily News.
In 1988, Michele went to work as the first Public
Information Officer for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. After
approximately a year in that position, she returned to her career field,
accepting a job as the Okaloosa County Bureau Chief for WEAR-TV. She then spent
the next 16 years covering events in Okaloosa County for Channel 3 News.
In October 2005, Michele returned to the Sheriff’s Office
to become the Public Information Officer for a second time.
Michele remains involved in numerous civic and charitable
organizations. She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Heart
Association, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Fort Walton Beach Rotary Club, Board of
Directors for the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society, on the United Way Marketing
Committee, and as a founding member of the Okaloosa County Commission on the
Status of Women. She is also a member of the Florida Law Enforcement Public
Information Officers Association and National Information Officers Association.
Michele and her husband Scott have two children, Cody and
Shane.
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